Hello & welcome to Happy Little Homemaker! I’m so glad that you stopped by! I would love for you to subscribe to my RSS Feed. You can also find me on Pinterest and Twitter. Thanks for visiting! So I recently made a show and tell video of my Budget Binder. I’ve been wanting to write […] Read more…

27 December 2016 by jen | Comments Off on Budget Binder Show N Tell — Paper Bookkeeping for Wierdo’s Who Use Cash01 - God, Books

Disclaimer: These books were received in exchange for an honest review, but all opinions are my own. This post may contain affiliate links at no extra cost to you. Since I quit blogging so much, I have really spent a lot of time in artistic pursuits. I used to consider words my art, but I […] Read more…

I haven’t been doing a ton of blogging, but I have been diving into school, learning and reading on my own and even enjoying a few hobbies. One is bible journaling and the other is turning into one of those planner weirdo’s on IG who have more than one planner and use it as an […] Read more…

One of the things I mightily struggle with is trying to instill virtue in my kids. I have tried several different ways and methods of doing so and none of them have felt right or stuck with our family for very long. I received a message from Monica Speach about her Catholic character program, Program […] Read more…

16 November 2016 by jen | Comments Off on PACE – Program for Achieving Character Education for Catholic Schools & Homes {Curriculum Review}Homeschool

Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links at no extra cost to you. Thanks for your support! I don’t mind science but as I added more students, I decided to concentrate on doing the basics REALLY well. Something had to give and with my early elementary kiddos, science is one of those. I refuse to take […] Read more…

19 October 2016 by jen | Comments Off on Exploring Science for Early Elementary…without Curriculum01 - God, Books

I have quit blogging for the most part these days, originally due to health reasons, but now I’m just enjoying the slower pace of life. Occasionally, though, an opportunity comes through that I can’t pass up. When I got an email from Tyndale about reviewing Gratitude: A Prayer and Praise Coloring Journal, I could not […] Read more…

Bookworm-8 is now ready to enter third grade. Taking an extra year was the best decision EVER! I never could have guessed how much growing, both emotionally and intellectually, would happen this over last year. Like last year, we started with Memoria Press Third Grade Core as our jumping point. That being said, we […] Read more…

Our daughter, Miss Lady-5 does not meet the cut-off to have been considered a kindergartener last year, but she was more than ready (and wanting) to begin Kindergarten level work in January. So we did. We also did the Kindergarten Memoria Press literature, science and enrichment last year. This year, I looked at the Memoria […] Read more…

I put a LOT of thought into how to make this school year work with a rambuctious 3-year old boy, his crazy 6-year old sister and an extremely social third grader. I always get overly ambitious and started out with several subjects that I have since dropped to preserve peace in the house. Thank goodness […] Read more…

August is still in ordinary time, but it has a few of my favorite feast days AND a holy day of obligation. Here are a few major Catholic feasts, memorials and solemnities in August. 8/1 – St. Alphonsus Liguori 8/6 – The Transfiguration 8/15 – The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Holy Day of […] Read more…

27 July 2016 by jen | Comments Off on Living the Liturgical Year – August

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